Edgar Dearing
Born: 1893-05-03 in Ceres, California, USA
Died: 1974-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edgar Dearing (May 4, 1893 – August 17, 1974) was an American actor who became heavily type cast as a motorcycle cop in Hollywood films. Born in 1893, Dearing started in silent comedy shorts for Hal Roach, including several with Laurel and Hardy, notably in their classic Two Tars, probably his best ever screen role. He later had supporting roles in several of their features for 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Dearing continued in his familiar persona until the early 1950s, when he appeared in many film and television westerns, usually as a sheriff. One of his guest roles was on the syndicated television series, The Range Rider, starring Jock Mahoney and Dick Jones. He was still active in films and television until he retired in the early 1960s; he died from lung cancer.
Filmography
2024
- Laurel & Hardy: Year Two as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Bill in 'Go West' (archive footage) (uncredited)
1960
- Thriller as The Police Sergeant
- The Tall Man
- Pollyanna as Mr. Gorman
1959
- The Twilight Zone as First Resurrected Man
- No Name on the Bullet as Charlie - Chess Player (uncredited)
1958
1957
- Trackdown as Doctor (uncredited)
- The Golden Age of Comedy as archive footage
1956
- State Trooper
- Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! as Investor Charlie
1954
- Public Defender
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mr. Gorman
- The Long, Long Trailer as Trailer Park Manager (uncredited)
1953
- I'm the Law
- It Came from Outer Space as Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
- Vice Squad as Fitz (uncredited)
1952
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Police Lt. Ryan
- Cavalcade of America as Fitz
- Hopalong Cassidy
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff #4 (uncredited)
- Carson City as Daly - Railroad Conductor (uncredited)
- Ruby Gentry
- Glory Alley as Man at Gym (uncredited)
1951
- Boston Blackie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail as Pop Willard
- Silver Canyon as Colonel Middler
- As You Were as Sgt. Monahan
- Pecos River as Henry Mahoney
1950
- Union Station as Detective (uncredited)
- Hunt the Man Down as Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
- The Good Humor Man as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Fancy Pants as Mr. Jones (uncredited)
- The Iroquois Trail as Colonial Major (uncredited)
- Raiders of Tomahawk Creek as Randolph Dike
1949
- Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture as Reiber
- The Threat as Roadblock Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Sorrowful Jones as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
1948
- Out of the Storm as Ed Purcell
- My Girl Tisa as Jailer (uncredited)
- Man or Mouse as Hercules Jones
1947
- The Bishop's Wife as Policeman
- Magic Town as Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
- Where There's Life as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- My Brother Talks to Horses as Policeman (uncredited)
- Christmas Eve as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
1946
- The Virginian
- Road to Utopia as Official Policeman (uncredited)
- Nocturne as Policeman with Injured Susan (uncredited)
- Up Goes Maisie as Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
1945
- Scarlet Street as Policeman (uncredited)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood as Al - First Studio Cop
- Johnny Angel as Jim, a Cop (uncredited)
- Don't Fence Me In as Chief of Police
- Midnight Manhunt as Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
- Her Lucky Night as Casey
- Swing Out, Sister as Motorcycle Cop
1944
- And the Angels Sing as Man (uncredited)
- Make Your Own Bed as Sergeant
- The Mark of the Whistler as Bank Guard (uncredited)
- In Society as Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
- Seven Doors to Death as Claude Burns
- Strange Affair as Motorcycle Officer (uncredited)
1943
- Princess O'Rourke as Policeman at White House (uncredited)
- The Hard Way as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Coast Guard as C.P.O. Ben Cobb
- Fired Wife as Sullivan
- Swing Shift Maisie as Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
1942
- Miss Annie Rooney as Policeman
- My Favorite Blonde as Joe - Policeman
- A Gentleman After Dark as Joe
- The Affairs of Martha as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- Apache Trail as Marshal (uncredited)
- My Favorite Spy as Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
- Between Us Girls as Policeman (uncredited)
1941
- Hold That Ghost as Irondome (uncredited)
- Remember the Day as Detective
- Caught in the Draft as Recruiting Sergeant
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob as Policeman (uncredited)
- Maisie Was a Lady as Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
- Pot o' Gold as Police Officer McGinty (uncredited)
- Louisiana Purchase as House Detective (uncredited)
- Niagara Falls as State Trooper
1940
- Go West as Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 as Policeman (uncredited)
- Edison, the Man as Policeman
- Knute Rockne All American as Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
- One Night in the Tropics as Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
- We Who Are Young as 1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- When the Daltons Rode as Sheriff
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- No Time for Comedy as Sweeny (uncredited)
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Police Officer
- And One Was Beautiful as Higgins
- Florian as Cop
- Lucky Partners as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- Primrose Path as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- American Spoken Here as Mike Fink (uncredited)
- Wyoming as Capt. Evans
- Little Orvie as Policeman
- Sailor's Lady as Chief Master-of-Arms
- Manhattan Heartbeat as Policeman
- Cross-Country Romance as Ed Sweeney
- Wildcat Bus as Policeman Giving Ticket (uncredited)
1939
- It's a Wonderful World as Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
- Made for Each Other as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- Nick Carter, Master Detective as Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
- A Child is Born as Police Sergeant (uncredited)
- Dust Be My Destiny as Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
- Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite as Jim Simmons
- King of the Underworld as Police Detective (uncredited)
- Rose of Washington Square as Lieutenant (uncredited)
- The Gracie Allen Murder Case as Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
- Full Confession as Lieutenant Thatcher (uncredited)
- The Jones Family in Hollywood as Studio Policeman (uncredited)
- Four Girls in White as Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
- Blondie Meets the Boss as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
- Thunder Afloat as Petty Officer (uncredited)
- Honolulu as Jailer
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Second Bartender (uncredited)
1938
- You Can't Take It with You as Bill (uncredited)
- Blondie as Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
- Love Is a Headache as Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
- Maid's Night Out as Police Detective (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Bus Conductor (uncredited)
- The Chaser as Policeman at End
- The First Hundred Years as Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
- Hold That Kiss as Policeman
- Hard to Get as Eddie (uncredited)
- Listen, Darling as Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
- Spring Madness as Policeman
- Border G-Man as Smoky Joslin
1937
- The Awful Truth as Motor Cop (uncredited)
- You Only Live Once as State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
- Love Is News as Motorcycle Officer
- They Gave Him a Gun as Sgt. Meadowlark
- It Happened in Hollywood as Joe Stevens
- Big City as Tom Reilley
- Dangerous Number as Policeman
- Midnight Taxi as Officer Murray
- Married Before Breakfast as Police Sergeant
1936
- After the Thin Man as Bill (uncredited)
- Swing Time as (uncredited)
- That Girl from Paris as Ship's Purser (uncredited)
- Hollywood Boulevard as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- All Business as House Detective
- Bunker Bean as Policeman (uncredited)
- Back to Nature as Motorcycle Officer
- Border Flight as Smugglers' Pilot
- Down the Ribber
1935
- If You Could Only Cook as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- She Couldn't Take It as Precint 5 Policeman
- Rendezvous as 1st Military Policeman (uncredited)
- The Farmer Takes a Wife as Railroad Man
- Stolen Harmony as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
- The Rainmakers as Kelly
- Helldorado as Motorcycle Cop
- A Quiet Fourth
- The Nitwits as Police Officer Barney Riley
1934
- Cleopatra as Convict
- Thirty Day Princess as Tim - Policeman at Mrs. Schmidt's (uncredited)
- Ocean Swells as Captain
- Kentucky Kernels as Policeman (uncredited)
1933
- The Midnight Patrol as Policeman (uncredited)
- Eskimo as Constable Balk (uncredited)
- The Nuisance as Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
1932
- Horse Feathers as Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
- Million Dollar Legs as Train Official (uncredited)
- The Lost Squadron as Policeman Wanting Report (uncredited)
1931
- The Painted Desert as Buck's Partner
- Consolation Marriage as Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
- The Star Witness as Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
- Next Door Neighbors as Cop
1930
- Abraham Lincoln as Armstrong
- A Man from Wyoming as Sergeant
- Free and Easy as Officer
- Two Plus Fours as Rent Collector
- Live and Learn as Mr. Smith
- Estrellados as Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Traffic Tangle as Motor Cop
- Rich Uncles
1929
- The Locked Door as Cop
- The Mighty as Doughboy
- Clunked on the Corner as Cop
- A Pair of Tights as Policeman (uncredited)
- Flight as Football Coach
- The Jazz Age as Motor Cop
1928
- Lonesome as Cop (uncredited)
- Limousine Love as Motorcycle cop
- Should Tall Men Marry? as Henchman
- Came the Dawn as Big Moving Man (uncredited)
- Fair and Muddy as Motorcycle Cop
1927
- Call of the Cuckoo as Guest
- Why Girls Love Sailors as Amorous Sailor
- Should Men Walk Home?
1926
- On the Front Page as Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)